Sentences with phrase «bogus argument»
The phrase "bogus argument" refers to a false or misleading statement someone uses to support their point of view. It means that the argument is not true or valid. Full definition
And Chief of Staff John Kelly seems to have lost control over the process, to the extent that even the joint efforts of the secretaries of state and defense couldn't convince Trump to avoid making the totally bogus argument that reliance on foreign steel harms American national security.
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Everyone in America also knows that the GOP is tapping this underground racist sentiment and prepping them with bogus arguments.
Campaigners allege bogus arguments have been made in favour of claim.
Mr. Sokol, if your attorney is making such bogus arguments, either you have a really bad case, and should compromise, or you need a better attorney.
Their tinkering with dog breeds to make them cuter, lower maintenance or more useful to humans — all in the name of sales, of course — leads to no good, and to bogus arguments like this one.
Another big problem I have with the denial camp is the refusal to refute clearly bogus arguments, e.g., that growing wine in England is proof that the medieval warm period was much warmer than it is today.
It also provided one more opportunity for Vanguard Group founder and index fund pioneer Jack Bogle to say it's most likely a bogus argument.
«Peak earnings» is a bogus argument for selling stocks, providing there is still a background of growth, and particularly with the S&P 500 trading at a very reasonable multiple of a little more than 16 times 2018 earnings.
«There are some older justifications that it's about preventing underage sales but since the ultimate sale is done by a retailer, that's a bogus argument,» Gavil said.
Forget all the bogus arguments about whether corporations are people, or whether money is speech, etc..
One of the arguments against gay marriage is that people will get married just to reap tax benefits (a bogus argument, since this applies equally well to hetero couples)
What a bogus argument.
«From my perspective, that's a bogus argument,» said Alan D. Aviles, head of the city's Health and Hospitals Corp., to The New York Times.
«I just think it's a bogus argument.
Added Blair Horner of NYPIRG: «It's obviously a bogus argument to say that on the one hand they're allowed to make an interpretation that allows the LLC loophole and now they say they don't have the authority to close it.»
«This is a bogus argument, this is not different than other regulations, than mercury or acid rain.»
Weber called that a «bogus argument» and a mischaracterization to call it, as O'Donnell did, a five - year tenure bill.
Answering all these bogus arguments may seem pointless — feeding trolls etc. — but remember, there are people other than the interlocutors who find these pages.
There are restricted websites where deniers meet to share all these bogus arguments, doctored charts, and denier «studies» that proliferate regularly.
Even down to the bogus arguments that the second law of thermodynamics is violated!
against Wyeth's (and the Bush administration's) bogus argument that FDA approval of the anti-nausea drug Phenergan should automatically immunize the company from lawsuits.